Central Bank Of India PO GK Paper-2010

1. India has an agreement with which country regarding distribution of Indus river water?

Ans : Pakistan

2. Which one of the following is an award given by UNO?

Ans: Kalinga Prize(UNESCO)

3. Which one of the following is associated with cricket?

Ans: No Ball

4. Which one of the following is a trophy associated with Hockey?

Ans: Rangaswamy cup.

5. Who won the Hockey world cup held in India this year?

Ans: Australia

6. Which one of the following is not related to Banking?

Ans: Radiation

7. The government has decided to provide new banking license. Which body in India issues license for banking?

Ans: RBI

8. Moorti Devi Award is given in the field of?

Ans: Literature

9. India recently applied for ___ billion SDR. SDR is associated with?

Ans: IMF

10. Surjit Patter is famous _____ poet?

Ans: Punjabi

11. Indira Gandhi Canal is in which state?

Ans: Rajasthan

12. What is the full form of NAV usually used by Mutual Fund companies?

Ans: Net Asset Value

13. What is RBI’s GDP growth prediction for the fiscal 2010-11?

Ans: 8%

14. 34th National Games will be held in which state?

Ans: Jharkhand

15. When is World Water Day celebrated?

Ans: 22nd March

16. Which of the following is used in nuclear reactor?

Ans: Uranium

17. Which company is not under defence ministry?

Ans: BHEL

18. India recently signed an agreement for supply of LNG with the country which is the largest producer of LNG in the world?

Ans: Qatar

19. Which one of the following is a not a missile developed by India?

Ans: Pinaka (is a rocket launcher)

20. Which country is not on the list of high industrial production countries?

Ans: IRAN

21. Who is the director of the movie”Oye Lucky Lucky Oye”?

Ans: Dipankar Banerjee

22. USA recently passed a resolution for protection of nuclear assets throughout the world. Which one of the following is an step taken by US in this regard?

Ans: Organized a nuclear security summit

23. The insurance by banks is better known as?

Ans: Bankassurance

24. Which one of the following is not related to finance?

Ans: Convergence(Don’t know exactly)

25. Sandra bullock has been awarded with Oscar in which category?

Ans: Best Actress.

26. RBI recently hiked the CRR by 25 basis point ?What will be the effect?

Ans: Banks have to deposit more money with RBI

27. ADAG companies were in news recently for making good profits. ADAG companies is better known as?

Ans: Reliance Companies

28. Other than CO2 which gas found in water has become a threat to living beings?

Ans: Methane(found in sea and marshy areas)

29. Ajit Wadekar has been recently honored with?

Ans: None of these

30. Who is the head of 19th Law Commission?

Ans: PV Reddy

31. What is the definition of Mutual fund?

Ans: ?

32. Who is the writer of SOLE?

Ans: Rana Gupta

33. In ONGC OPL….OPL stands for?

Ans: Oil Prospecting License

34. Vinda Karindakar is a famous personality in the field of?

Ans: Literature

35. Commonwealth Games will be held in which country this year?

Ans: India

36. Plain vanilla currency option is associated with which instrument?

Ans: Forex(Don’t know exactly)

37. India recently decided to soften the FDI norms? Which body in India is the regulatory body for FDI?

Ans: Finance Ministry (Not sure??)

38. Who won the National Women’s Football Cup 2010?

Ans: ?

39. What is the effect of increase in Repo Rate?

Ans:?

Bank PO Interview Questions - 2010

Corporation Bank Interview Experience(28-06-10) - I

·        The list of Questions that were asked in the three Men Interview

·        Tell me something about yourself apart from the details given in the Bio-Data

·        Why do you want to join bank?

·        What is Banking? How is it different from Saving Bank of Post Office?

·        Difference between Karnataka and Jharkhand Economy? (as I am from Jharkhand)

·        Today’s Headlines?

·        Similarity between USA and India in-terms of Economy?

·        How many bank exams have you appeared for?

·        Do you know the costing of Civil Engineering?

·        What are your hobbies?

·        What is NEFT?

·        What is the difference between million and a billion?

·        What is the buzzing word of India’s economy?

·        What action is the RBI taking? What is the final impact on the Economy?

Submitted by Alfred.

Corporation Bank Interview Experience – II

·        You have done Chemical Engg and worked in RIL, then why do you want to join a bank?

·        What do you know about Corporation Bank?

·        What are the functions of RBI?

·        Do you have any account in any bank. Which type of account and what is the interest rate payable on it?

·        What is the difference between Savings account and Current Account?

·        What are your strengths and weaknesses?

·        What is a debit card and what all can be done with it?

·        What is your family background?

·        Are you willing to work anywhere in India?

Allahabad Bank PO Interview Experience

·        Tell me something about yourself?

·        Why do you want to join a bank as you are a chemical engineer and worked in 2 good companies?

·        If in a rural branch in which you are posted, someone asks you for loan or money on gunpoint what will you do?

·        What is a Bank?

·        What are various activities and functions in a bank?

·        What is Distillation?

·        What is Coal Tar?

·        Your Hobby is reading Bhagavad gita. What do you read in it?

·        Cite some slokas from Bhagvad Gita?

·        How can you say that banking sector is fast growing?

Submitted by Karun Dhamija.

Current Affairs June - II 2010

1.      The economy is likely to grow around 8.5 per cent in the current fiscal if the country gets a normal monsoon, Prime Minister's economic advisory council chairman C Rangarajan.

2.      Indians are the most eco-friendly people while Americans the least, according to a 17-nation survey on consumers' progress towards environmentally sustainable consumption patterns. India toped the Consumer Greendex, compiled by National Geographic which studied 17,000 consumers in 17 countries. The rankings are Indians, Brazilians, Chinese, Mexicans, Argentineans, Russians, Hungarians, South Koreans, Swedes, Spanish, Australian, German, Japanese, British, French, Canadians and Americans.(June CA Part-1)

3.      The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) announced its huge dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong, which could be the world's largest-ever initial public offering, says a media report. ABC, the biggest bank in China by customers, plans to sell as many as 22.24 billion A shares in its IPO in Shanghai and another 25.4 billion shares in Hong Kong.

4.      Israel will set up three centres of excellence to enhance productivity of fruits in Maharashtra. The west Asian nation is also mulling setting-up a post-harvest college.

5.      Tamil Nadu Government launched an eco tourism policy which would facilitate conservation and preservation of the state's natural resources.

6.      Justice Rao takes charge as chairperson of National Commission for Backward Classes.

7.      Yogesh Aggarwal Chairman & Managing Director of IDBI Bank has resigned following his appointment as the Chairman of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA).

8.      Former Infosys co-chair Nandan Nilekani will head a committee that will recommend to the finance ministry on how best to tap information technology for an effective tax administration and financial governance system.

9.      Russia said it will share the enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technology with India for production of nuclear fuel for atomic power plants in the country.

10. An Indian American science teacher is among the pedagogues nominated by US President Barack Obama as a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Radhika Plakkot is among 103 Maths and Science teachers who have been selected for this prestigious award from across the country.

11. India's growth is expected to rise to nine percent in 2011 with South Asia poised to become the second-fastest growing region after East Asia & Pacific, says the latest World Bank update.

12. India has slipped to a low of 128 in the Global Peace Index ranking with the country along with Pakistan and Sri Lanka experiencing more incidents of internal conflicts, terrorism and human rights abuses. The only study to quantify global peacefulness, the GPI is produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).

13. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that the government is in the process of setting up 8 more income tax overseas units, including in the US and Britain, to facilitate exchange of tax related information. At present, the government has one such unit (ITOUs) each at the Indian mission in Singapore and Mauritius.

14. The French government says it's selling off 1,700 properties including chateaux, barracks and Parisian mansions, in part to cut the country's heavy debt.

15. The government has a cash balance of around Rs 48,000 crore with the Reserve Bank currently and will spend it gradually rather than at one go, three sources with direct knowledge of the issue told Reuters.

16. Surging prices notwithstanding, the government has hiked the minimum support price of pulses by up to Rs 700 to a maximum of Rs 3,170 a quintal but support for paddy has been increased by a meager Rs 50 a quintal. 

17. India win gold medal in World Cup archery. The Indian trio of Rahul Banerjee, Mangal Singh Champia and Jayanta Talukdar clinched the men's team recurve gold medal with a 218-214 win over the US in the final of the World Cup archery (Stage II) in Antalya, Turkey.

18. Russian Grandmaster Dmitry Kokarev drew his final match to emerge as the winner in the Mumbai Mayor's Cup International Open Chess tournament.

19. A British environmentalist (Roz Savage) has become the first woman to row alone across the Pacific Ocean, receiving a rock star welcome in Papua New Guinea after finishing a nearly 13,000-kilometre journey.

20. The US is home to about 1.6 million Indian origin people, making them the third-largest immigrant group in the country after Mexicans and Filipino, a Washington-based think tank has said.

21. The Cabinet approved the mid-term appraisal (MTA) of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007-12), which scaled down the average growth target of the economy to 8.1 per cent from 9 per cent. The MTA will now be placed before the National Development Council (NDC), the highest policy making body in the country headed by the Prime Minister.

22. A global effort to ban cluster bombs has gained the signatures of 106 countries, but 70 more have yet to sign on with only weeks to go before the ban goes into effect on Aug 1. The United States is among those refusing to sign. The Pentagon considers cluster bombs to be a key part of its defence strategy.

23. China is to impose new age limits on mountaineers seeking to climb in Tibet, authorities said, after an American 13-year-old became the youngest person ever to scale Mount Everest.

24. Justice Rekha Manharlal Doshit and Justice M Yusuf Eqbal were appointed as Chief Justices of the Patna High Court and the Madras High Court respectively.

Sports Update - 2010

FIFA World Cup 2010:

The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup that took lace in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The 2010 finals marked the first time a European nation had won the tournament outside of its home continent, as well as the first time that two different European teams had become world champions in succession.

Spain got their first ever FIFA world cup.

 The 19 tournaments that have been contested have been won by eight different national teams. Brazil have won the World Cup a record five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament.

Titles by team so far:

Brazil – 5(1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)

Italy – 4(1934, 1938, 1982, 2006)

Germany – 3(1954, 1974, 1990)

Argentina – 2(1978, 1986)

Uruguay – 2(1930, 1950)

France – 1(1998)

England – 1(1966)

Spain – 1(2010)

Final Positions of 2010 FIFA World Cup:

Champions: Spain

Runner-up: Netherlands

Third place: Germany

Fourth place: Uruguay

Awards:

Golden Ball Winner(best player): Diego Forlan (Uruguay)

Golden Boot Winner(top goal scorer) & Best Young Player(best player under 21 years): Thomas Mueller(Germany)

Golden Glove Winner(best goalkeeper): Iker Casillas(Spain)

FIFA Fair Play Award: Spain

Wimbledon Championship 2010:

The 2010 Wimbledon Championships took place in Wimbledon, London, UK.

Rafael Nadal won his second Wimbledon title against Tomas Berdych and his 8th Grand Slam title.

 Serena Williams won the ladies tennis Wimbledon 2010 final against the Russian Vera Zvonareva and notched up her fourth Wimbledon win together with her 13th Grand Slam title.

India's Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe beat South African Wesley Moodie and Lisa Raymond of the US to win the Wimbledon mixed doubles title. With this victory, Paes surpassed his one-time doubles partner Mahesh Bhupathi in winning the most Grand Slam titles for India. Paes now has six doubles and six mixed-doubles titles. Bhupathi has 11 Grand Slam titles -- four doubles and seven mixed doubles titles.

List of 2010 winners:

S.no		Winners	Runners
1.	Men’s Single	Rafael Nadal(ESP)	Tomas Berdych(CZE)
2.	Women’s Single	Serena Williams(USA)	Vera Zvonareva(RUS)
3.	Mixed Doubles	Leander Paes (IND) / Cara Black (ZIM)	Wesley Moodie(RSA) / Lisa Raymond(USA)
4.	Men’s Doubles	Jurgen Melzer(AUT) / Philipp Petzschner(GER)	Robert Lindstedt(SWE)/ Horia Tecau(ROU)
5.	Women’s Doubles	Vania King(USA) / Yaroslava Shvedova(KAZ)	Elena Vesnina(RUS)/ Vera Zvonareva(RUS)

Quiz on General Knowledge 74 - 2010

1.      Omar al-Bashir, the only world leader facing an international arrest warrant, was sworn in as _______________?

a)President of Egypt      b)Prime Minister of Sudan      c)Prime Minister of Egypt    d)President of Sudan    e)none

2.      From which country India is buying C-17 Globemaster III strategic-lift aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF) in a deal worth $5.8 billion?

a)US      b)Israel     c)Russia     d)France     e)none

3.      Which of the following country has played the most number of One-day International (ODI) matches?

a)Australia      b)India     c)England     d)West Indies     e)none

4.      Which of the following ministry has announced a financial assistance of Rs 95 lakh for about 19,000 rubber growers in the country during the current financial year?

a)Ministry of Commerce and Industry

b)Ministry of Agriculture

c)Ministry of Finance

d)Ministry of External Affairs

e)none

5.      Who won the 2010 Abel Prize(often been described as the "mathematician's Nobel" prize) presented annually by the King of Norway for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers?

a)Mikhail Gromov     b)Jacques Tits     c)John Tate     d)Jean-Pierre Serre     e)none

6.      Which Country is planning to work with Rajasthan in cooperation with the local authorities on issues like water quality and agriculture?

a)Israel      b)UK     c)Russia     d)US    e)none

7.      Who has been appointed as the next head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)?

a)Yvo de boer     b)R K Pachauri       c)Christiana Figueres     d)Kofi Annan    e)none

8.      Fiscal deficit pegged at ____ percent of GDP during 2009-10?

a)6.0%      b)6.6%      c)6.9%      d)6.3%     e)none

9.      According to the Worldwide Quality of Living survey 2010, which of the following city placed best among Indian cities in the global list at 140th rank?

a)Delhi      b)Mysore      c)Bangalore      d)Mumbai    e)none

10. Who has been sworn in as President of Germany?

a)Angela Merkel     b)Horst Kohler     c)Johannes Rau    d)Christian Wulff    e)none

11. Which of the following state has come under President’s rule recently?

a)Uttarakhand     b)Chhattisgarh     c)Meghalaya    d)Jharkhand     e)none

12. Who is the Chairman of the committee formed by RBI to review the services rendered to retail and small customers by banks and their Ombudsman scheme for addressing grievances?

a)M Damodaran        )M V Nair      c)M S Sundar Rajan     d)O P Bhatt    e)none

13. Which state will host the International Literature festival?

a)Kerala      b)Gujarat     c)Rajasthan     d)Andhra Pradesh     e)none

14. Which Country is the World’s largest consumer of oil?

a)China      b)India     c)Russia     d)Japan    e)US

15. Who is the new chairman of the Indian Banks Association (IBA)?

a)M V Nair     b)C S Reddy      c)O P Bhatt     d)Y V Reddy     e)none

16. Mahinda Rajapaksa visited India and signed seven pacts to boost bilateral cooperation across a range of areas, including security, power, railways and cultural exchange. He was the _________?

a)Prime Minister of Srilanka

b)President of Maldives

c)Prime Minister of Malyasia

d)President of Srilanka

e)none

17. Who is the author of the book ‘Grandmother’s Tale’?

a)R K Laxman     b)Salman Rushdie      c)Arundhati Roy     d)Shashi Tharoor     e)R K Narayan

18. Which state will provide free Education and books to students of classes I-VII in government schools?

a)Tamilnadu     b)Rajasthan     c)Andhra Pradesh    d)Gujarat    e)none

19. Which of the following is the World’s biggest bank in terms of market capital and brand value, compiled by brand directory?

a)Bank of America      b)Citi Bank     c)HSBC     d)J P Morgan    e)SBI

20. Which of the following term is not related to banking and finance?

a)Private Equity    b)broker     c)mortgage     d)Annuity     e)All are related